Word: slippers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under banner headlines and were sold last week on the bookstalls of famed W. H. Smith & Sons. Apt was a Chicago Tribune front page cartoon by John Tinney McCutcheon showing Edward VIII as Prince Charming kneeling to Mrs. Simpson as Cinderella and finding that her foot fits his jeweled slipper. In the background John Bull shushes a man representing British Journalism who tears his hair and cries: "Ye gods! The biggest news story in the world...
...names (some chosen by the sponsors). Bored by the U. S. Naval Academy, he spent his $150,000 patrimony on a leisurely trip around the world. Unsuccessful on the stage, he got a job at $18 a week introducing Jimmy Durante and Cab Galloway at the now defunct Silver Slipper night club, shortly stepped up into radio. He is one of very few public announcers whose voice can be used both in the U. S. and in England. Of his voice said the London Sunday Referee: "It has neither an American nor an English accent, but it grips the attention...
Both ships spending day at anchor near Cat Island and fifty miles from San Salvador, the landfall of Columbus. Fished this morning, catching enough for slipper. Proceeding tonight to Great Inagua Island. Rendezvous there tomorrow morning with Potomac. All well...
...promised high spot was to be the revival of Carmen with Rosa Ponselle. Soprano Ponselle had her chance (TIME, Jan. 6). Last week an audience was agog over another Carmen who sang in Swedish while the rest of the cast sang in French, who lost the heel of one slipper, casually attempted to mend it, finally hurled it into the wings and hopped with one shoe on & one shoe off for the remainder...
...increasingly complicated career. Failing to marry his cook himself, he discovers that she is in love with the butler, who by this time has returned to his old job and is preparing to marry a young lady of fashion. A ceremony equivalent to that of fitting the glass slipper is achieved when the bridegroom finds himself kidnapped at a fashionable wedding, rushed off to the racketeer's establishment for a machine-gun marriage to the girl he really loves...